Governments Quotes · Page 8

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

— Kim Campbell

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

— Taylor Caldwell

“Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”

— Steven Magee

“There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!”

— Steven Magee

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

— James A. Garfield

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

— Richard Perle

The federal, state, and local governments are involved in virtually every aspect of business.

— Luther Strange

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

— Denise Dresser

“Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism—the politics of fear.”

— Graham E. Fuller

We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and…

— Alex Morrison

“If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not…

— Jane Goodall

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

— Jonathan Sacks

Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money…

— Bob Diamond

“I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing…

— Steven Magee

Bitcoin is getting there but it’s not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped…

— Rick Falkvinge

Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services.…

— Alex Berenson

Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats…

— Noam Chomsky

Though the laws are regarded as the expression of the peoples will, it is not always that the people start the process…

— T Joseph Benziger

“The same is true for the market economy: the power of markets is enormous, but they have no inherent moral character. We…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the…

— S. Evan Townsend

The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians…

— Dave deBronkart

There are governments who are regulating things in different ways and those forms of regulation often don't square up. So you have…

— Misha Glenny

“The many governments within a single metropolitan area are almost designed to fight among themselves because state law makes them largely dependent…

— Bruce Katz

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

— Bobby Scott

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

— Julie Bishop

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

— Peter Blair Henry

We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

— Ian Goldin

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

— Suharto

I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.

— Jane Fonda

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

— Frank Herbert

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

— James Cook

“Police internal affairs is amongst the most corrupt departments that you will find in governments.”

— Steven Magee

“The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.”

— Steven Magee

Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys.

— Frans van Houten

“Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.”

— Steven Magee

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this

— Lee Kuan Yew

“Intentional misinformation of the masses by corporate governments is causing large numbers of easily preventable deaths.”

— Steven Magee

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva